doug schoen who helped run successful campaigns for president bill clinton, he says yes. and we're talking about that with him in just one minute. check the big board, we're now up just 33 points. still though, the dow is at 13,447. let me introduce to you our company this thursday morning. charles payne is with us, democratic strategist doug schoen is here and nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. hold on a second. pending home sales down 2.6%. very interesting. that's month to month, okay? so the latest month showed a 2.6% decline, month over month, but year on year, up 10.7%. interesting picture. 3.40%, that's the most important number to me quite frankly, 3.40%, that is the 30-year fixed rate loan from freddie mac. can you believe that, 3.40%. >> i'm pretty sure i'm right in saying that's an all time record low. 3.49 last week, 3.40 this week. not bad. no impact on the market, dow industrials still up 33 points. okay? and no impact on all of these housing numbers, and the mortgage number, no impact on stock prices, at least not, not immediatel